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  • March 2008
  • Course Overview Note

Dynamic Markets

By: Joshua D. Coval and Erik Stafford
The Dynamic Markets course at Harvard Business School is organized around the hands-on application of financial decision making in a wide variety of capital market settings. The course relies heavily on in-class simulations of a range of market settings where students... View Details
Keywords: Value Creation; Decision Making; Capital Markets; Competitive Strategy; Profit; Applications and Software; Information; Strategy; Price; Outcome or Result; Curriculum and Courses; Theory
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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

The Buy-In Effect: When Increasing Initial Effort Motivates Behavioral Follow-Through

By: Holly Dykstra, Shibeal O'Flaherty and A.V. Whillans
Behavioral interventions often focus on reducing friction to encourage behavior change. In contrast, we provide evidence that adding friction can promote long-term behavior change when behaviors involve repeated costly efforts over longer time horizons. In... View Details
Keywords: Friction; Behavior; Environmental Sustainability; Transportation; Outcome or Result
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  • 30 Apr 2024
  • Book

When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners

corporation ever to declare bankruptcy. Then, a couple of years later, I was asked to advise on a new Defense Industry Initiative on Business Ethics and Conduct being organised by a consortium View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Value-Based Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts Value-Based Health Care Value-Based Health Care Cases & Teaching Notes Key Concepts Key Stakeholders Publications Team Work With Us Presentations Value-Based Health Care Based on the... View Details
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Seminars & Conferences - Faculty & Research

Seminars & Conferences Seminars & Conferences The Digital Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard Events The D^3 builds community and expertise around the digital transformation of the economy at HBS and beyond through curated... View Details
  • 01 Nov 2021
  • What Do You Think?

How Long Does It Take to Improve an Organization’s Culture?

(iStockphoto/skynesher) Most CEOs recognize the power of organizational culture and the impact that it can have on the bottom line. They acknowledge the importance of shared values and behaviors that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Program Requirements - Doctoral

faculty members in the student’s unit. Dissertation Proposal By the end of their third year, all students are required to obtain approval of their dissertation proposal by their Dissertation Chair.... View Details
  • 2016
  • Article

Penalized Fast Subset Scanning

By: Skyler Speakman, Sriram Somanchi, Edward McFowland III and Daniel B. Neill
We present the penalized fast subset scan (PFSS), a new and general framework for scalable and accurate pattern detection. PFSS enables exact and efficient identification of the most anomalous subsets of the data, as measured by a likelihood ratio scan statistic.... View Details
Keywords: Disease Surveillance; Likelihood Ratio Statistic; Pattern Detection; Scan Statistic; Mathematical Methods
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Overview

Laura taught undergraduate Military Leadership and Intro to Sociology for 6 and 4 semesters, respectively, at the United States Military Academy (West Point) from 2013-2016 (see course descriptions and links below). She was promoted from instructor to Assistant... View Details

    Andy Zelleke

    Andy Zelleke is the MBA Class of 1962 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration. A member of the General Management unit, he is the Faculty Chair of HBS’ Middle East & North Africa Research Center.

    Since Spring 2021, Dr. Zelleke has taught “Unpacking... View Details

    Keywords: defense; defense; defense; defense
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    Program Requirements - Doctoral

    take into account the quality of the student’s oral presentation, the quality of the student’s responses to questions from the Dissertation Committee, and the written material prepared prior to the oral... View Details
    • 14 Feb 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Clay Christensen’s Milkshake Marketing

    fast-food restaurant chain that wanted to improve its milkshake sales. The company started by segmenting its market both by product (milkshakes) and by demographics (a marketer's profile of a typical milkshake drinker). Next, the... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Service; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage
    • June 2022
    • Article

    A New Initiative to Track HIV Resource Allocation and Costs

    By: Ryan McBain, AK Nandakumar, Michael Ruffner, Carlyn Mann, Mai Hijazi, Susanna Baker, Linden Morrison, Kalipso Chalkidou, Shufang Zhang, Iris Semini, Fern Terris-Prestholt, Steven Forsythe, Sarah Byakika, Joshua Musinguzi and Robert S. Kaplan
    In early 2020, several global health institutions – including the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS); United States Agency for International Development; and Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator at... View Details
    Keywords: Activity Based Costing; HIV; Cost; Health Care; Healthcare; Health Care and Treatment; Activity Based Costing and Management; Resource Allocation; Health Industry; Africa
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    • 24 Jul 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    Value Maximization and Stakeholder Theory

    game. It just tells them how the score will be kept. That is the role of value maximization in organizational life. It doesn't tell us how to have a great defense or offense, or what kind View Details
    Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
    • 09 Dec 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Unilever—A Case Study

    had both Dutch and British members, and directors and functional departments were based in both countries and had managerial responsibilities without regard for the formality of N.V. or Ltd./PLC ownership.... View Details
    Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Manufacturing; Retail

      Enabling Mission Impact: Funding Strategies for High-Risk High-Reward Innovation

      Governments and foundations around the world are urgently seeking strategies to optimize their investments across a range of distinctive missions targeted towards societal challenges. How should such investments be made, from early R&D spending to later-stage... View Details
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      Program Requirements - Doctoral

      write a dissertation, which typically takes the form of three publishable papers, to the satisfaction of their Dissertation Committee. The dissertation defense is oral and open... View Details
      • 14 May 2013
      • First Look

      First Look: May 14

      U.S. State Department As U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton acted on a long-standing interest in public-private partnerships to elevate and activate an Office of... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 16 Nov 2016
      • Research & Ideas

      Turning One Thousand Customers into One Million

      drivers, Uber today is arguably as well informed about low-wage workers as the US Department of Labor.) By gathering this information, Uber was able to use the online ads to identify the right drivers. Etsy... View Details
      Keywords: by Thales S. Teixeira and Michael Blanding; Retail; Transportation; Accommodations
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      Technology & Operations Management - Faculty & Research

      the Emergency Department and the Impact on Care Delivery By: Jacob C. Jameson, Soroush Saghafian, Robert S. Huckman and Nicole Hodgson Objectives: To examine heterogeneity in physician batch ordering practices and measure the impact View Details